STORY STARTER
Write a story where the first line is advice to the reader.
Depending on the direction you want to take the story in, it can be mundane, simple advice or the wackiest one you can think of!
Anxiety
Never, ever under any circumstances go outside at night. If your job requires it, quit. If your house is on fire, put it out or die. If you forgot to get groceries, go hungry. If your friends suggests it, dump them. If someone tries to drag you out the door, fight with every bone in your body. If you want to find love, you can’t. If you want some fresh air, just wait until morning. There is never a good reason to go outside at night.
Why?
It’s dangerous, there are so many things out there. A car might drive into you. Someone might try to kidnap you. Someone might break in and steal all your food. You might get arrested for looking shady and lose your job. You could be shot, or worse, survive a shooting where your friends all die. Maybe a war has just started and you haven’t heard and someone might just fly across the sky and drop a bomb but if you’d just been a little further away, inside your house, you would’ve been okay.
Maybe.
Possibly.
You just don’t get it.
It’s not safe.
It doesn’t feel safe.
I just want to feel safe.
You can’t make me go.
But if you do.
Can you hold my hand?
I thought this was a really great piece. Especially how you repeatedly describe why you should not go outside at night and then at the very end make it okay to go as long as that someone is holding your hand. Because that’s the only way you’ll feel safe. The only part I didn’t fully understand was the line that said, “Someone might break in and steal all your food.” Mainly because someone could do that even if you stayed home and had your lights on.
What I was going for was the idea that the excuses you make when you have anxiety are ridiculous and don’t really make sense. Thanks for your feedback, I’ll try to communicate that sort of thing better in my next writing! :)
Oh gosh that makes perfect sense!!